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Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb () xara net>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 11:01:10 +0100
I guess your view is different because of difference between pricing of leased lines. If you have a hugely expensive international private line, you have to sell its capacity for prices which make customers unlikely to buy flat-rate. It's not like that in US.The trend is for flat rate dialup and usage based rates for leased line.Sorry, this does not correspond to what i've seen. People who buy a T-1 usually have enough traffic to fill it. Faster WWW access encourage faster browsing, that's it.
Having several expensive IPLs that's not what we see either. I wonder if it's more to do with people being more keen to charge per packet if they are paying per packet (either in the obvious metered manner, or if they are using an upstream link which is inevitably going to be flat-topped, which works out much the same as pay per packet). If so this might help explain the difference of views given that I'm in UK which has rather a different connectivity model from continental Europe. As a general point, when providers have cheap / a surfeit of outgoing bandwidth, they are bound to be more concerned about building customer base numerically. When bandwidth is in short supply or expensive, they are going to be concerned more about how much each customer is using. Certainly in the US input cost is less price sensitive to upstream bandwidth costs than in continental Europe (if only as it's a smaller % of total cost). Alex Bligh Xara Networks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Hank Nussbacher (Sep 01)
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- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Hank Nussbacher (Sep 01)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Roger Bohn (Sep 01)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Vadim Antonov (Sep 01)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Alex.Bligh (Sep 02)
- Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Sean Donelan (Sep 02)
- RE: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Jim Browning (Sep 02)
- RE: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Peter Ford (Sep 03)
- RE: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Vadim Antonov (Sep 03)
- RE: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Peter Ford (Sep 04)
- RE: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Sean Doran (Sep 04)
- RE: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS Vadim Antonov (Sep 04)